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E. H. KELLEY AND G. A. STEWART, JR.

STAND.

APPLICATION FILED OCT-25.1919.

1,847,637, Patented July 27, 1920.

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,4 TTOR/VEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMMOR HAMILTON KELLEY AND GE ORGE ALVA STEWART, JR., 012 SOUTH BROWNSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

STAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 25, 1919. Serial No. 333,192.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EMMOR HAMILTON KELLEY and Gnonen ALVA Srnwnnr, Jr., citi- Zens of the United States, and residents of South Brownsville, in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stands, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is an improvement in stands, and has for its object to provide a stand especially adapted for use in repairing and testing engine cylinder blocks, particularly of the Ford type.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front view of the stand,

Fig. 2 is a side view.

Fig. 3 is a detail showing the mounting of the posts.

In the present embodiment of the invention, the improved stand comprises a base 1, having at one side legs 2 and at the other wheels for supporting the base, the base and the legs 2 being of angle material as shown. Referring to the drawing it will be noticed that the end members of the frame are extended at the end adjacent to the wheels beyond the adjacent side plate of the frame.

Standards or uprights 5 are secured to the frame intermediate the ends thereof, the said uprights being suitably braced against each other and against the ends of the base by inclined braces 6 and 7, and to the uprights is pivoted a support for the engine block.

The support comprises a pair of cross heads 10 which are pivoted to the uprights as indicated at 11, and the cross heads are connected by angle plates 12 and 13. The cross heads are of angle material having the horizontal portions thereof at the top and extending inwardly, while the plates 12 and 13 are secured to these horizontal portions in parallel and spaced relation.

A link ll is pivoted to one of the braces 6, and this link is adapted to be connected to the cross head, as shown in the drawing to hold the support in horizontal position. The connection between the cross head and the link is a bolt and nut which may be released. Referring to the drawing it will be seen that the plates 12 and 13 are arranged with their vertical portions outward, and a pair of adjustable posts 14 is connected with the vertical portions of the plates.

Each of these posts is movable through an opening in the outwardly extending portion of the angle plate 12, and that end of the post which is remote from the plate 13 is reduced as shown at 16 to engage the engine pan bolt holes. The opposite end of the post is cored to receive an adjusting screw 17 which is threaded through the outwardly extending portion of the plate 13. The screw 17 does not have threaded engagement with the post but the post is cored large enough to receive the screw loosely. A coil spring 15 is arranged between the plate 12 and the post, and acts normally to press the post toward the set screw. The reduced outer end 16 of the post is as before stated designed to engage the engine pan bolt holes, and the annular shoulder formed between this reduced portion and the body of the post engages the casting of the cylinder block to support the same while the clamping screw is removed from the water intake bolt hole when in reversed position. A bracket plate 18 extends upwardly from the web of the plate 13, and this plate is adapted for connection with one of the water inlet bolt holes. It will be noticed that this bracket plate has an opening adapted to register with one of the bolt holes of the water inlet of the engine, when the posts are in engagement with the engine pan bolt holes.

lVe claim:

1. A stand of the character specified, comprising a base having uprights arranged transversely thereof near the center, a support pivoted to the tops of the uprights, said support comprising a cross head on each up right, plates connecting the cross heads, each plate having a web extending outwardly from the plane of the cross heads, on which webs the engine to be tested is adapted to rest, posts connected with the webs and adapted to engage the engine pan bolt holes, said posts being adjustable longitudinally in the webs, and a bracket plate extending laterally upward from one of the webs for the purpose specified.

2. A stand of the character specified, comprising a base having uprights arranged transversely thereof near the center, a support pivoted to the tops of the uprights, said support comprising a cross head on each upright, plates connecting the cross heads, each Patented July 27, 1920.

plate having a web extending outwardly from the plane of the cross heads, on which webs the engine to be tested is adapted to rest, posts connected with the webs and adapted to engage the engine pan bolt holes, said posts being adjustable longitudinally in the webs.

3. A support of the character specified, having upstanding webs spaced apart from each other and adapted to engage the cylinder block, posts mounted in the webs, and adjustable longitudinally in the webs, each post being movable in one web, an adjusting screw threaded through the other web, the

' adjacent end of the post being cored to receive the adjustment screw, and a spring pressing the post toward the set screw.

4. A support of the character specified, having upstanding webs spaced apart from each other and adapted to engage a cylinder block, posts mounted in the webs, and adjustable longitudinally in the webs, a spring normally pressing each post in one direction, and an adjusting screw for moving it in the opposite direction.

5. A support of the character specified having upstanding webs spaced apart from each other and adapted to engage a cylinder block, posts mounted in the webs, and adjustable longitudinally in the webs.

6. A support of the character specified having upstanding webs spaced apart from each other, posts mounted in the webs and adjustable longitudinally thereof and spaced apart from each other to engage within the engine pan bolt holes, one of the webs having a bracket plate provided with an opening adapted to register with one of the water intake bolt holes when the posts are in' engagement with the engine an bolt holes.

EMMOR HAMILT N KELLEY. GEORGE ALVA STEWART, JR. 

